Happy St. Patrick’s Day! There isn’t a dessert I love more than a delightful Rainbow Cake with fluffy, homemade Butter Cream Frosting! Don’t shy away from creating charismatic cake, it’s not as hard to make as you may think it is. If I can make it, you definitely can!

To Create Your St. Patrick’s Day Rainbow Cake, You Need:

Six 9-inch cake pans

Vegetable shortening

3 cups all-purpose flour

1/2 teaspoon salt

2 sticks unsalted butter

2 1/3 cups sugar

5 large egg whites (no yolks)

2 teaspoons vanilla extract

1 ½ cups milk

Red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and purple gel food coloring

To Make the Buttercream Frosting, You Need:

1 cup vegetable shortening

1 cup butter

1 bag (2lb) powdered sugar

2 teaspoons vanilla

4 tablespoons milk

How to Make A Rainbow Cake:

Start by preheating the oven to 350 degrees. Coat each cake pan with shortening and then line the bottom of each with parchment paper. Brush again with shortening and set aside.

Whisk together the flour, baking powder, and salt in a large bowl then set aside.

In a separate bowl, slowly mix the sugar and butter together using a handheld electric mixer. A great tip on slow mixing would be to add small increments of each at a time, then combine and repeat.

Next, slowly incorporate the egg whites until well combined and then mix in the vanilla.

Now combine your flour mixture in small increments with the milk by beginning with the flour and ending with the milk until everything is well mixed.

Divide the batter evenly into six bowls. Add yellow, orange, red, violet, blue, and green food coloring to each their prospective bowls and mix until combined. Pour each color into a separate cake pan and bake for 15-15 minutes.

To make the Buttercream Frosting, mix the shortening and butter with an electric mixer. Gradually beat in the powdered sugar and vanilla. Then, add in the milk 1 tablespoon at a time and beat until frosting is light and fluffy.

Once the cakes are done, remove them from the oven and allow them to cool for about 10 minutes.

After they’ve cooled, remove them from the pans.

Place the first layer (violet) on your desired serving dish and frost the top and sides with a spatula.

Repeat the stacking and frosting of each layer until you’ve reached the top.

Smooth the top and outer layers of frosting with a spatula one final time.

Cut a piece of cake and serve!

Corri McFadden is the owner and founder of eDrop-Off Luxury Consignment. As a Style Expert and successful blogger, she hosts a weekly fashion segment on Chicago’s “You and Me This Morning”, and features “Style Recipes”, videos and Fashion “Must Haves” on her self-titled lifestyle website Corri McFadden. Most recently, she launched Glitter and Bubbles, a modern day moms guide for those looking for inspiration through fashion, food and décor.

Is the snow melting where you live, the sun a little stronger and happy spring feelings in the air? Ready for a little Easter fun – some whimsy and punches of colour? Well, the Land of Nod sent me some fun Easter products to try and the Meri Meri Easter paper goods are wonderful – just a little cheeky and with a punch of neon color. I loved everything they sent me.To go with all the fun plates, cups, garland, baskets and bunny ears, I decided to make lemon sable cookies dipped in chocolate with the fun Meri Meri Easter cookie cutters. Not only are these cookies fun, but the recipe is easy to make, versatile and dipping things in chocolate is always a good idea.

On a lightly floured surface roll out dough until it’s about 1/8 inch thick. Use cookie cutters to cut shape and place on parchment lined cookie sheet about 2 inches apart.

Bake for 8 – 10 minutes until edges are golden.

To decorate, melt chocolate gently in microwave in 15 seconds intervals. Add cream and stir until you have a smooth glossy texture. Dip each cookie into chocolate, let excess drip off and place on parchment to dry and add sprinkles. Add royal icing details if you want.

To add to our small dessert table we also made a lemon loaf cake. Again, easy to make in advance, keeps well, simple to transport and just as perfect as a dessert or a breakfast indulgence. You could also use the recipe for muffins and use the Easter cupcake liners and toppers available.

Make glaze by combining 2-4 tablespoons of milk with icing sugar until you get the consistency you like. You want it to drip but not be too watery. Add lemon juice if you want.

Set rack with cakes over a baking sheet lined with waxed paper. Pour glaze over cakes, letting it run down the sides; let dry, about 30 minutes. (I also added leftover royal icing from my cookie decorating.)

Are you hosting on Easter? Any great plans? I know I’ll be pulling out all of these great details to celebrate the day.

Giulia Doyle blogs at Audrey’s. She loves to share the sweet and savory, be it in the kitchen or travels. She juggles a family and a full-time job – they cook, travel and often paint a wall a new color.

There is no better way to celebrate St. Patrick’s Day than with a batch of colorful Rainbow Cupcakes! These cupcakes will be the hit of any St. Pattie’s Day party and impress all the kids, and Mom’s too, in your child’s classroom.

To create these fun St. Patrick’s Day Rainbow Cupcakes, you will need:

Gluten free yellow cake mix (regular will work too)

1/3 cup melted butter

3/4 cup water

Vanilla frosting

Green food coloring

Rolo’s

Airhead Xtremes

How to make them:

Start by cutting ¼ off of the Airhead Xtreme and continuing to do so with however many rainbows you will need. Take the larger pieces that remain and position them over a glass bowl, then pop them in the freezer. This will create the rainbow shape!

Then, in a large bowl, combine the cake mix, water, and butter. Mix until smooth.

Next, Preheat the oven to 350 degrees.

Line the cupcake tin with liners and spoon in the cake mix so they are ¾ of the way full. You don’t want them to overflow!

Bake the cupcakes for 18-20 minutes, or until the cake springs at your touch.

While the cupcakes are baking, mix the vanilla frosting with green food coloring until they are well combined.

To check if your cupcakes are done, insert a toothpick into the center of a single cake and see if it comes out clean. If your toothpick is clean, remove the cupcakes from the oven and set them aside to cool for 10 minutes.

Once they are cool, frost your cupcakes and use a knife to create two small slits on opposite sides of the top of the cupcake.

Remove the Airdhead Xtreme rainbows from the freezer and insert each end in the slits on the cupcake. Place a Rolo at each end of the rainbow (each one is a pot of gold!)

These colorful and delicious Rainbow Cupcakes are ready to be eaten!

Corri McFadden is the owner and founder of eDrop-Off Luxury Consignment. As a Style Expert and successful blogger, she hosts a weekly fashion segment on Chicago’s “You and Me This Morning”, and features “Style Recipes”, videos and Fashion “Must Haves” on her self-titled lifestyle website Corri McFadden. Most recently, she launched Glitter and Bubbles, a modern day moms guide for those looking for inspiration through fashion, food and décor.

Any cupcake covered in sprinkles is the perfect snack to send out with your little one for Valentine’s Day! Sweet frosting covered with pink hearts is not only irresistible but immediately conveys your message of “I Love You” and your tummy is about to love me back!

Combine the cake mix, vegetable oil, water, and eggs together to create the batter.

Place the cupcake liners in the tins and fill with about ¾ of the way with cake mix. Make sure to leave room at the top! Pop them in the oven and bake with the corresponding time on the cake mix box.

After the cupcakes are done baking, allow them to cool completely before frosting. Frost the cupcakes as preferred, top with a fun assortment of sprinkles, and serve!

Corri McFadden is the owner and founder of eDrop-Off Luxury Consignment. As a style expert and successful blogger, she hosts a weekly fashion segment on Chicago’s “You and Me This Morning” and features more tips and tricks on her website and her site for Mom, Glitter and Bubbles.

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